Fix that Sticking Dock
Fix that Sticking Dock
Ever had one of those days when your Dock just refuses to function? However often you drag your pointer to the foot of the screen (or the side, if you have your Dock on the right or left), it just won't appear from its hidden position, the magnification won't work and the little blue spotlights under the app icons bear no relation to the applications you actually have running. Don't worry â€" help is at hand. There are several things you can do to fix a stuck Dock, and none of them are particularly difficult.
• Repair your Permissions
This is a very good idea if your Dock keeps sticking on a regular basis. Open Disk Utility (it's in Applications/Utilities), select your startup volume (the actual volume, not its parent hard drive) and press the Repair Permissions button. It might take a few minutes to run.
• Restart Finder
In the Apple menu, select Force Quit, highlight Finder and press the Relaunch button. Finder quits and reboots itself.
• Relaunch Dock
There's no straightforward way to do this through Finder or System Preferences, so we have to launch Terminal. Again, it's in Applications/Utilities. Type 'killall Dock', without the quotes. Make sure you use an upper-case D for Dock. The Dock quits and relaunches.
• Unplug your Mouse
This one should probably have been at the top of the list, but we like to save the best until last. You might be able to fix your broken Dock by simply unplugging then reconnecting your mouse, or switching it off and on again if it's wireless. Last time I suffered with a stuck dock, I turned off my Magic Trackpad, switched on my wireless gaming mouse and tried the Dock again â€" it worked fine. I then turned off the mouse and reconnected the Trackpad, and it still worked fine. Fixes don't come much easier than that.
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